Improvement in oil-cans



UNITED STATES L. H. LMSTED, QF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-CANS.

PATENT OFFICE.

u Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,593, dated May 3, 15564.

specification, vand which makes part of the same.

The nature of my improvement consists in attaching to the tube of the oiler a collar asa place for the fingers in causing the needed pressure to expel the oil; also, in giving a raised and rounded form to the elastic top in itscenter, where it is attached to the tube.

'In the drawing, A is the semi-spherical body of the oiler. B is the elastic top; C, the finger-collar; D, the raised and rounded part of the top, and E the tube. The semi-spherical bottoni is counterbalanced by a Weight, a, (shown by the dotted lines inH the drawing,) by which the oiler, when thrown over, is again ed and raised center D allows of astronghold of the tubeE, 'and when raised high enough p to allow of a rounded inside beneath the screw of the tube E it gives more freedom to the flow ofthe oil. The collar Cbrings the pressure from the fingers more central upon the elastic top B than can be without it, and makes the oiler more convenient foruse.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure, is- Y 1. The attachment of a collar to the tube,

for the purpose specified.

2. Combining a raised and rounded top with p f a semi-spherical bottom, as shown and described.

3. Combining the semi-spherical bottom and weight with the flexible top, as shown.

L. H. oLMsTED.

i Witnesses: W. M. GooDrNG, O. CUERIER.

restored to an upright position. The round- V 

